Plays Written by Randy Reinholz:
A NEW STORY FROM RABBIT AND FROG
UNDER A BIG SKY
OFF THE RAILS
Bio:
Randy Reinholz, an enrolled member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, is Founding Artistic Director Emeritus of Native Voices at the Autry, the nation’s premier Equity theater company dedicated exclusively to developing and producing new plays by Native American, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, and First Nations, playwrights.
Reinholz is an accomplished producer, director, playwright, actor, and activist. His play Off The Rails, directed by Bill Rauch, had its world premiere and a sold-out run at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. He has several new scripts and media projects in development. He has produced more than 35 new scripts and directed over 75 plays in the United States, Australia, Mexico, Great Britain, and Canada. Under his tenure, Native Voices has presented 300 workshops and presentations of Native plays, with artists from more than 100 distinct tribal nations. Reinholz has directed productions at La Jolla Playhouse, Perseverance Theatre, Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, New York and Washington D.C., Arena Stage, New York’s Public Theater, and the Autry Museum, Los Angeles.
University and institutional directorial credits include 30th International Theatre Institute World Congress, UNESCO Metro Theatre, Tampico, Tamaulipas, Mexico; Brisbane Library, Brisbane, Australia; American Indian Community House, New York; Native Earth Performing Arts, Toronto, Canada; International Third World Conference, Chicago, IL; The Playwrights’ Center Minneapolis, McKnight National Residency Program; Alaska Native Heritage Center, Anchorage, AK; San Diego State University; Theatre Cornell; Illinois State University; Duke University; University of Massachusetts, Amherst; University of Miami, Ohio; Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia; Harlaxton College, Grantham, UK; First Nations House of Learning; University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada; Idyllwild Arts, Idyllwild California; The Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, OK; The Cherokee Casino, Cherokee, NC; and The Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
Reinholz has received Playwrights’ Arena’s Lee Melville Award, the Association of Theatre in Higher Education’s Ellen Stewart Award for Career Achievement in Professional Theatre, The Los Angeles Drama Circle’s Gordon Davidson Award, a McKnight Fellowship, a Map Grant, a Ford Foundation Grant, and numerous NEA grants. He was the President of the National Theater Conference, is a trustee of the College of Fellows of the American Theatre, and is on the National Advisory Board for the Valdez Last Frontier Theatre Conference. He served on the Los Angeles County, Cultural Equity and Inclusion Initiative Advisory Committee, and ATHE’s National Leadership Institute. Reinholz is a tenured Professor at San Diego State University, where he also served as Director of the School of Theatre, Television, and Film. Reinholz served as a Council Member (Board of Directors), for The Dramatist Guild of America, 2019-2020.
He has also appeared as an actor on many stages across the country as well as on NBC, ABC, and CBS Television.
Website: www.RandyReinholz.com